Errant Bodies project space is dedicated to experimental work in sound, performance, voice and spatial practices. Through residencies, workshops, events and exhibitions, Errant Bodies emphasizes an engagement with process and dialogue, encouraging a dynamic and diverse approach to the sound arts. As a project space, it also intends to foster social and public activities, contributing to the creative scene in Berlin. It is organized and developed through its working group comprised of Berlin-based sound artists and researchers.

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‘Map Series’ is a performance-installation on colonialism, in which the artist considers her identity as a Portuguese citizen facing a post-colonial context. In this performance-installation, Mendes stitches old paper maps of the former colonies stitches old paper maps of the former German colonies using a sewing machine. From Namibia to the Samoa islands, see the rise and fail of an empire. Part experiment, part musical composition, Map Series makes you to think: what is an empire today?

Concept, performance: Ana Mendes

Sound designer: Christina Shirley

The performance ‘Map Series happens in the frame of the Performing Arts Festival Berlin, 23-29th May, 2016.

Ana Mendes is an artist and writer, whose work deals with issues of language, memory and identity.

Christina Shirley is a radio artist and sound designer, founder of the project ‘Plants and Empire’, also part of the collective ‘SissiFM’.

The Berlin Performing Arts Festival is organized by LAFT Berlin in cooperation with the performance venues HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Sophiensaele, Ballhaus Ost and Theaterdiscounter. The Berlin Performing Arts Festival organized by LAFT Berlin is supported by the State of Berlin - Senate Chancellery (Cultural Affairs) from funds of the European Fund for Regional Development (EFRE) within the program "Promoting the Innovation Potential in Culture II (INP II)".

An exhibition and presentation of sound and experience in Chennai, India from Jeremy Woodruff and Susanne Matsche, new works exhibited from Nakul Krishnamurthy, Sukanyan Sunthareswaran, and Zeeshan Nabi.

Jeremy Woodruff and Susanne Matsché offer reflections on 20 months of living in India with sounds and images recorded there; how life and time is differently manifested with a series of festivals as markers of social life; how time flows differently through a round syllabary.

Days after the Assembly Election in Tamil Nadu, work by representatives of a new generation of young Indian composers and artists will be presented, former students of the KM Music Conservatory, that each contend in different ways with the current political climate in India under the BJP government and in Tamil Nadu under the AIADMK. Sounds of election booths from a few days ago, sounds of rickshaws, sounds of vendors and funeral processions are featured, among others. Jeremy Woodruff presents the collaborative blog: “Chennaisonic”

Lastly, “Ninnu-kori”, a transcription of eight versions of the same South Indian composition in Mohanam Raga will be premiered in an electronic version. A second graphic realisation shows the way some patterns of Tamil speech echo this particular raga.

Despite his extensive oeuvre of more than 40 radio art pieces he still seems to be a hidden hero. We will listen to

The Dreams, one of the first pieces with an experimental use of speech fragments, Radioville. Metropolis London,

an unusual city soundscape based on sounds of the London Tube and Moviola, based on sound bites of film reels

processed in an old "moviola", a device for analogue film editing. (For these pieces no German is required)Barry Bermange was born in London 1933, where he still lives. He developed his first radio pieces in the BBC Radiophonic

workshop. His work became more and more musical and abstract. Many of his pathbreaking pieces were produced in Germany by WDR and SWR. Three times he was awarded with the renowned Karl-Sczuka-Preis for radio art.

Entrance: 5€/3€

Pirate/Public is a project by Antje Vowinckel and Serge Baghdassarians from Errant Bodies Sound Art Space,

generously supported by the Pankow Bezirksamt Berlin.

Errant Bodies Sound Art Space / focusing on experimental work and research on sound through exhibition,

performance, fieldwork, and text. The project space is organized by a working group consisting of Berlin-based artists,